Tom's gothic nightmare

AUTHOR(S)

DAN WOOTTON

PUB. DATE

May 2013

SOURCE

Daily Mail;5/17/2013, p52

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

AFTER walking away from a possible starring role in Downton Abbey for the bright lights of Hollywood, Tom Ellis's dreams are in tatters. Tom (pictured) was to play Dracula in the new American drama Gothica, which saw classic gothic figures come alive in a modern-day soap opera. But the series has been axed by U.S. network ABC after one unscreened pilot.

Reviews two books about the Gothic period. `A Geography of Victorian Gothic: Mapping History's Nightmares,' by Robert Mighall; `Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century,' by Andrew Smith.